Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play by Wilson, August

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780452261136)

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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play by Wilson, August

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play

$15.00
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play by Wilson, August

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND CHADWICK BOSEMAN

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes the extraordinary Ma Rainey's Black Bottom--winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play.

The time is 1927. The place is a run-down recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blues singer, is due to arrive with her entourage to cut new sides of old favorites. Waiting for her are her Black musician sidemen, the white owner of the record company, and her white manager. What goes down in the session to come is more than music. It is a riveting portrayal of black rage, of racism, of the self-hate that racism breeds, and of racial exploitation.

Author: August Wilson
ISBN-10: 0452261139
ISBN-13: 9780452261136
Publisher: Plume Books
Language: English
Published: 04/24/1985
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.37w x 0.35d
By August Wilson
By August Wilson
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August Wilson was a major American playwright whose work has been consistently acclaimed as among the finest of the American theater. His first play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best new play of 1984-85. His second play, Fences, won numerous awards for best play of the year, 1987, including the Tony Award, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Joe Turner's Come and Gone, his third play, was voted best play of 1987-1988 by the New York Drama Critics' Circle. In 1990, Wilson was awarded his second Pulitzer Prize for The Piano Lesson. He died in 2005.

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